Being Human we all have our little idiosyncrasies, our pet hates, the things we like, all the little things that are not necessarily bad things but make us different, interesting, liked or unliked.
When it comes to swinging, what are yours ? what makes you think "nice profile would love to know more" or "waste of time not worth looking into ?
The reasons are not so important, just what little things make you instantly think "no chance"
There are the usual more prominent ones like no pictures, pics of just the female, too far away, too big, too short, too blonde, too slim, not enough information on profile, age and so on, but what else is there for you ?
Some I can think of for us include,
the length of time on site with no SHREP for real meets.
huge list of friends but no SHREP for meeting
Professionals, yes it puts us off, people with a degree or BA, Queens Commission or other qualifications that put them into the Professional category are, to be honest, a little over our social standing, we are a simple couple, not very scholared and down to earth in our ways and chat, we don't know anything about fine wines and rarely eat the finest foods, we don't go to the theatre or opera, enjoy trance not classical music, now I know that is labelling people to the Nth degree but most Professional people, do enjoy these things.
People whose profiles say "My partner would love to see me ....... " we like people who do whatever they do for themselves.
People whose profiles say "we don't take swinging seriously" personally we take it very seriously, if we are inviting someone into our home and possibly our bed then we give it a lot of thought before we say yes, and we don't want to arrange meets with people who couldn't care less about the meet and think "sod it" on the night or who have no respect because it's just a bit of fun, of course it has to be fun but fun with consideration.
Reading back it makes us wonder how we ever get a meet ...... giggles, but we do ;)
well its not us - we have shrep - whatever that is??
but we don't think that havng or not having shrep helps at all - the whole shrep system is really nonsense
however - if some think it's a good measure of people then good luck to them - we don't agree
PS - we're a proffesional couple and suitably qualified to call ourselves such should we wish to - BUT we don't. We think of ourselves as simple working class folk because that's our heritage and our state of mind - and we don't care if that labels us - because we're proud of it.
Still don't quite get SHREP but then we've never found it a draw back to be quite honest.
Most of the other stuff on your off putting list seems very similar to what irks us, Especially the Proffesional, profeshional, proffessional bit. Especially, as so said, prufeshunals should be able to f*cking spell PROFESSIONAL when it appears on their profile blurb. Anyway what the hell is a so called 'professional' nowadays? Do you get a certificate saying "Professional doctor or professional school teacher" No I don't think you do. More a thing about being competent in specific set of skills nowadays I'd of thought.
Another thing that puts us off is profiles that say things such as ***NO SINGLE MEN WE ARE NOT INTERESTED AND DO NOT WANT YOU DO YOU UNDERSTAND YOU ARE WASTING OUR TIME***(Lifted from an actual profile) and going on about it in that fashion.
Or other profiles that list two dozen no's no's to meeting people. OK can understand having preferences but some go on and on and on. For goodness sake it's not as though your looking at marrying your next meet and your bringing them home to meet your parent. For these people I reckon it would be easier for them to take their genitals in their hands, look in a mirror and rub furiously until satisfied because it seems that the person your looking at in the mirror is your ideal meet.
I could go on...Oh, I already did.
Hmmm. Where to start?
Felt kind of upset that a Profesional firefighter and nurse can't call ourselves professional, so we looked it up.
Lets try the good old Oxford English Dictionary
Professional:
1. Following an occupation as a means of livelihood or for gain: a professional builder.
2. Of, pertaining to, or connected with a profession: professional studies.
3. Appropriate to a profession: professional objectivity.
4. Engaged in one of the learned professions: A lawyer is a professional person.
5. Following as a business an occupation ordinarily engaged in as a pastime: a professional golfer.
We always assumed we were professional, after all we do try our best to ensure no one dies. So we were glad to see that it seems that we are professional after all, according to numbers 1-3!
So in a nutshell, we agree with your sentiment, but your definition and therefore whole impetus diverges from ours.
As for whats gets up our nose?, Blandness. put some pics up, some info about you and maybe, just maybe your location!
We understand the need of people not to put face pics, we ourselves do not show them. But why not show a non face pic, like ours that at least let's the other person know a little about your physical stature?
Once you have done that fill in your info, for example. if you are a male in birmingham with med build and 5 foot 8 height wny hide it? Are you really concerned you are the only person in the world that meets that description?
In short... be open and stop playing games.
In short what puts me off is an empty profile, no face pic attached to a message and pictures of people having sex with others in the public photos.
If you cant even be bothered to attempt to fill in a simple tick box profile and write an introduction to yourself, then IMO you are not looking for anything in particular and just an opportunist.
If no pic attached to a private message, I will not waste my time messaging you back and forth, only to find out later that there is no attraction; this also makes me feel like they have something to hide.
Sex in public photos is just my personal off put, I would just like to talk to a person, not a penis or vagina. :-P
Its like trying to have a normal convo with someone, whilst they are mid performance with someone else.......let me ask to see your sexual private pics if I choose to.
It doesnt impress me to see that you can have sex or have genitals, I'm kinda assuming thats a given lol
Pam xx
P.s. No sleight on anyone who does any of the above, just dont bother messaging me! ;-)